Setup rust development environment

Having development environment is not only finish by installing a compiler. To do fast and efficient work-flow, developers also need tools to help them produce high quality code efficiently. In this article I will share how to get your first rust complete development environment with visual studio code.

Installing rust

Run in your terminal :

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Follow the instruction

Put rust to your env

add `source $HOME/.cargo/env` to your shell configuration

Installing editor IDE or editor

Download visual studio code if you don't have, it's good for you I promise.

1. Install `rusty code` extension, from extension pane at the left side bar.

2. Install other tools

run in your terminal

"cargo install racer" for code completion

"cargo install rustfmt" for code formating

"cargo install rustsym" for getting symbol

Alternatively you can open file with .rs extension, then at the bottom right there will be text informing that there are several missing tools for rust, click it and install.

Now you have complete rust development environment

Next step, lets learn about rust here :

http://rustbyexample.com/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/